The Art and Humor of John Trever: Fifty Years of Political Cartooning (Trever John)(Paperback)

The Fat of the Land (Seymour John)(Paperback)

More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important and inspiring book and retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. Complete with Sally Seymour's illustrations and cover, and with a new introduction by Hugh

The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World (Haywood John)(Paperback)

Through fifty-four color maps, covering almost 3,000 years and spanning the whole of Europe, this atlas of the Celts charts their dramatic history from Bronze Age origins to present-day diaspora. Each map is accompanied by an authoritative text and supporting illustrations. 'Continental Celts' maps

Battle for Crete (Hall Spencer John)(Paperback)

After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book tells of confused negotiations between the

Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Berger John)(Paperback)

'Essential reading'--n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a 'master' storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things) In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces--essays, short stories, poems, translations--which spans

Mathematics and Humor (Paulos John Allen)(Paperback)

John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W. C. Fields, and Woody Allen

Sites of Exposure: Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience (Russon John)(Paperback)

John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with how personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death combine with broader issues such as

Sicily - A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra (Norwich John Julius)(Paperback / softback)

A colourful and lavishly illustrated history (fifty years in the making) of the Mediterranean's largest and most turbulent island from much-loved historian John Julius

Greek Art (Boardman John)(Paperback)

John Boardman, one of the best known and acknowledged scholars of the classical Greek world, has updated his definitive survey of its arts, the most influential and widely known historic artistic tradition of the Old World. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable evidence

The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street (Rothchild John)(Paperback)

Bestsellerautor John Rothchild erz hlt hier die Geschichte dreier Generationen der legend ren Davis Familie, die zu den erfolgreichsten Anlegern in der Geschichte der Wall Street z hlt. Geistreich und mit viel Liebe zum Detail pr sentiert Rothchild eine Chronik der Finanzeskapaden des exzentrischen

The Dialectics of Art (Molyneux John)(Paperback)

In a sweeping survey of art from the dawn of the bourgeois era to the present day, John Molyneux explains what makes artistic production under capitalism unique, moving, and possibly

Major Works (Clare John)(Paperback)

After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to

The Oxford History of the Roman World (Boardman John)(Paperback)

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative and compelling work tells the story of the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus, to its consolidation in the first two centuries

Political Liberalism (Rawls John)(Paperback)

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a 'well-ordered society,' one that is stable and relatively homogenous in

John Major: An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? - Reappraising John Major(Pevná vazba)

The first political biography of John Major and his government. A timely reassessment of a forgotten man of British

Selected Writings (Ruskin John)(Paperback)

John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and

Colour in Art (World of Art) - Kelly Grovier, John Gage

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Culture. The complex phenomenon of colour has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics

Fortunate Man - The Story of a Country Doctor (Berger John)(Paperback / softback)

Berger's exploration of what it means to heal, now inducted into the Canons series nearly fifty years after its first

Battle (Toland John)(Paperback)

The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas. . . . Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there. . . . He tastes the bitterness of

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (Dryzek John S.)(Paperback)

Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and

Marvel Masters: The Art Of John Byrne(Paperback / softback)

John Waters: Indecent Exposure (Hileman Kristen)(Pevná vazba)

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in visual art, writing, and performance. This major

Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy (Rawls John)(Paperback)

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of

Selected Poems (Burnside John)(Paperback)

Over 17 years and nine collections, John Burnside has built--in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue--'a poetic corpus of the first significance,' a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the charmed half-light of the liminal, a domestic world

Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic (Taylor Helen L.)(Paperback)

Fifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the vocabulary and concepts for young readers while keeping the storyline intact. The result was a classic in itself, which has now sold over 600,000 copies. It's both a simple adventure story and a profound